Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
Pimp My Series
And now, a word from our sponsors.. I used to think that NBC’s Today Show was a news show. I was wrong. It turns out it’s a reality show called Pimp My Series. Should be on TLC. This morning,...
Read morePutting Social Media To Work
Ft. Peck Dam, the first cover of LIFE Magazine, by Margaret Bourke White In 1936, when Henry R. Luce launched LIFE Magazine, the world’s first ‘picture’ magazine, it was the depths of the Great Depression. Luce imagined that he...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
Final screening this evening for 44 more potential Travel Journalists.
Read moreHenry Luce ‘got’ the Web before There Was a Web
At Time Inc., Man of the Year every day I am reading The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley. It’s the story of Henry Luce, who was once a household name in the US, but...
Read moreLet’s Put the ‘Public’ back in Public Broadcasting
Cutting edge… 1962 Yesterday, while I was sitting at my kitchen table typing out my angry screed about Gwen Ifill, I was also listening to NPR, as I do every morning. NPR happened to be running their annual beg-a-thon,...
Read moreThe Nobility Is Annoyed
Oh no, Ms Ifill… PBS’ Gwen Ifill is annoyed. Some ‘person’ is questioning her right to rule over the peasants. This ‘person’, who Ms Ifill refuses to call by name, is Prof. Jay Rosen of NY University. He wrote...
Read moreAre Universities Next?
OK. Who here is PC based and who is Mac? We all know that newspapers and TV networks are bloated and increasingly unproductive in the digital world. Big buildings, overstaffed, trapped with a 1950’s mentality of how things get...
Read moreBBC Natural History – Bootcamp Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuI4eTw_xxI[/youtube] Lucinda Axellrod [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkRklAsEEg[/youtube] Rosie Gloyn [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuDA0Uq874[/youtube] Miles [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemZy_SR_yY[/youtube] Elly We have just completed our first BBC bootcamps in Bristol, UK for the Natural History Unit. These are the same folks who bring you Blue Planet or Meerkat Manor....
Read moreNow That’s Productivity!
Like building a new building… without the building… We’re here wrapping up a week of intensive training at The BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. Everyone is in the big conference room, beavering away on their final projects. In...
Read moreThe Wasted Potential
Don’t look at the camera… We are spending this week with The BBC in Bristol, in the UK. We’re running a bootcamp for 40 BBC producers, directors, associate producers, researchers and God only know what other positions they hold....
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